Financial Aid for Admitted International Students

Colleges and Universities A-Z Johns Hopkins University
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<p>Hey all!</p>

<p>Congrats in becoming accepted to JHU. Not much would prevent me from enrolling, except... money.</p>

<p>As a middle-class Canadian citizen, I am to receive NO aid, according to the ISIS website.</p>

<p>This means that around $55,600 would have to come out of my parents' pockets each year - a ridiculous thing to ask of them.</p>

<p>Anyways, is anyone else in the same boat, and are there current students there that know how to combat the issue?</p>

<p>Thanks a lot,
.serendipity</p>

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<p>Did you apply for Financial Aid?
JHU is not need-blind for internationals.</p>

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<p>Yeah I did.</p>

<p>I’m aware of that, but that doesn’t mean they don’t offer any at all… right?</p>

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<p>Hey i’m also from Canada, but rejected =[
ANyways, my friend got into JHU, and he almost has a full ride FA. If anything, maybe you could appeal the FA decision?</p>

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<p>Sorry to hear, h2opoloboy. I’m sure you’ll get in somewhere great regardless (cliched, but undeniably true).</p>

<p>Yeah, I will definitely have to appeal. I think one of the biggest issues was that I send in my CSS Profile early - when the Cdn. dollar was at like $0.88, so the conversion is way off at this point.</p>

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<p>Oh, and what is your friend’s income bracket?</p>

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<p>How would one go about appealing a JHU Financial Aid Decision? Do we write a letter/make a phone call? And what do we say?</p>

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<p>OMG, im exactly in the same boat guys!!!</p>

<p>i got my package today (i applied to financial aid!) but the number is not what i had in mind AT ALL.</p>

<p>basically, i need to pay about 46000 a year… or a bit more than that if you include all the other expenses</p>

<p>so, is JHU really <em>need-based</em>?</p>

<p>this is bad :S</p>

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<p>^ In which country do you reside?</p>

<p>(Side note: the postal service works on Saturdays?!)</p>

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<p>I live in canada :)</p>

<p>they sent it by FedEx. Great feeling to sign the mail. but felt horrible after i saw how much financial aid I am getting :|</p>

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<p>@serendipity
his family makes around 60-70k a year CANADIAN
so it’s like…48-56k USD…
and yea…freakin exchange rate…would have been so much better last year when it was 1:1</p>

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<p>Ughhhhhh… i submited my css way too early as well…</p>

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<p>.serendipity, where did you apply in Canada? Just curious :P</p>

<p>I got rejected from JHU, i guess they put more emphasis on SAT than i thought :D</p>

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<p>where did you apply 100canadian? just curious</p>

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<p>I’m sorry to hear that, 100Canadian! There’s good news to come yet, I’m sure.</p>

<p>I only applied to University of Alberta and British Columbia, and McGill, in Canada. Definitely waiting on news about major scholarships, given that 3/5 American schools to which I’d applied are not needblind for Canadians.</p>

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<p>As another accepted Canadian JHU applicant, I did not receive a FedEx package today. Should I be worried?</p>

<p>Also, what is everybody else going to do about this whole insufficient financial aid business?</p>

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<p>NO you shouldnt be worried cuz the BIG BEAUTIFUL white truck is on the way to your house. :)</p>

<p>since spacecamper, you havent seen ur package yet, you still have a chance to receive lots of aid…</p>

<p>its just me. dont really know what to do… since convincing my parents to pay 50000 a year is a bit of a problem :S</p>

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<p>spacecamper, the package is posted on ISIS, if you haven’t seen it yet.</p>

<p>There’s not much we can do. JHU won’t be an option for me if this lack of aid really stands.</p>

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<p>I already checked my financial aid on ISIS and it doesn’t look pretty either.</p>

<p>Still no FedEx truck.</p>

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<p>Since JHU isn’t need blind for internationals and you were admitted, they had some reason to believe you had the ability to pay for your college education. The reason was either the FASFA, the CSS profile or the CollegeBoard’s Certification of Finances form which all colleges generally require for international students.</p>

<p>If you are an accepted international student, it means they believe you have the ability to pay for your college education without their help, or else if you had requested financial aid and did not receive it, then they would not have admitted you (this is what need-blind means).</p>